Example sentences of "there be something to " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Name ] is the type of fella that if there 's something to be done that might cause him paperwork , he 'll do anything to avoid it . |
| 2 | There 's something to be said for experiencing bad things and coming back and doing the business . |
| 3 | " Gentlemen , " interrupted the Collector , " it 's clear that the difference between you is a deeply felt and scientific one which none of us here are qualified for adjudicating To an impartial observer it seems that there 's something to be said on either side … |
| 4 | Hadlee reflected for a moment : ‘ I suppose there 's something to be said for that . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's something to be said for that , ’ said Zeinab , with a sidelong glance at Owen . |
| 6 | There 's something to be said about that . |
| 7 | obviously we got to have fears , because there 's something to be , they 're the largest nation in fucking Europe so everybody 's got to fear them , because they co-hearse all the other into being part of their group and that sort of stuff got ta be |
| 8 | So , also there 's something to be said for , I mean , a basic technical thing about the type is that you want to be able to tell the letter apart . |
| 9 | While different kinds of discrimination are not to be conflated , I believe there is something to be learned from homophobia about other kinds . |
| 10 | THERE is something to be said for a government creating horrible problems for itself . |
| 11 | There is something to be said for such a view . |
| 12 | It is , first of all , the only view according to the internal constitutional laws of the Dominions affected , and there is something to be said for avoiding conflicts of constitutional laws . |
| 13 | However , there is something to be said for being kept waiting by a buyer . |
| 14 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 15 | There is something to be said for having a well-fed appearance . ’ |
| 16 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 17 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 18 | Some people may find it too exciting ; certainly , there is something to be said for being on the side of the road away from the steep drops into the valley , which means driving eastwards by this route and not westwards , or into Bigorre not out of it . |
| 19 | This means that the framework for any activity is itself communicative i.e. that there is something to be communicated to someone for some purpose . |
| 20 | And there is something to be upbeat about in 1992 : it 's an election year . |
| 21 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 22 | But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances . |
| 23 | The soft woods ; pine , spruce or larch are rather vulgar ; but there is something to be said for a really old vintage larch root . |
| 24 | No doubt there is something to be said for beginning this task all over again , and for using a new technique for the purpose . |
| 25 | Even though the spreadsheet will act like a financial calculator and tell you all about your savings plan there is something to be said for actually seeing your money grow . |
| 26 | This year 's income may be a poor indicator of a household 's true economic spending power , and there is something to be said for basing the tax assessment on property values . |
| 27 | If there is something to be said for the project , it 's that Waggoner has been doing his homework . |
| 28 | Yet the difficulties which some governments have experienced in recent years in delivering political promises that the size of the bureaucracy would be reduced suggest that there is something to the foundation upon which economic models of bureaucracy have been built . |
| 29 | So , but there is something to be said for it I 'm certainly not running it down , what I am saying is you ca n't . |
| 30 | Yes , but I think there is something to be said for communicating this in a different way . |